Re: Your local news and happenings

[f1-cobra]

The Robot Arms Hotel in New York City in the 31st century?

[Pixx]

not my local news, but:

Chinese man gets remote control stuck in bottom after drunk prank

A Chinese student appears to have been the butt of a somewhat strange prank following a nasty incident with a remote control.

Nineteen-year-old Huang Chen mystified medics when he turned up drunk at Hunan Hangtian Hospital in Changsha, complaining of unexplained pain from his rear end.

While being examined, the tipsy student turned over in bed, and inadvertently changed channel on the ward's telly.

Astonishing X-rays later revealed that the teenager had a TV remote control lodged up his backside.

Police say it was a part of a prank played by flatmates on Chen when he collapsed after a boozy night out.

"We didn't know what it was to start with. There was a little bit of blood but he didn't say anything about a remote control. We couldn't quite believe it when we saw the X-ray," said medic Dr Wei Lung Zhi.

"He will be fine in time but the remote was a write off," he added.

ROTFLMAO!

[revngo]

not my local news, but:

Chinese man gets remote control stuck in bottom after drunk prank

A Chinese student appears to have been the butt of a somewhat strange prank following a nasty incident with a remote control.

Nineteen-year-old Huang Chen mystified medics when he turned up drunk at Hunan Hangtian Hospital in Changsha, complaining of unexplained pain from his rear end.

While being examined, the tipsy student turned over in bed, and inadvertently changed channel on the ward's telly.

Astonishing X-rays later revealed that the teenager had a TV remote control lodged up his backside.

Police say it was a part of a prank played by flatmates on Chen when he collapsed after a boozy night out.

"We didn't know what it was to start with. There was a little bit of blood but he didn't say anything about a remote control. We couldn't quite believe it when we saw the X-ray," said medic Dr Wei Lung Zhi.

"He will be fine in time but the remote was a write off," he added.

ROTFLMAO!

Geez! He either has a big ass or remote controls in China are a zillion times smaller than our UK ones

[Rus-Evo]

Or he was REAALLY drunk

[RED DEVIL FAN]

wrong post

[Pixx]

Brittany Murphy passed away at the age of 32 i wasn't expecting this. i watched "Love and other disasters" a couple of days ago, and she was so lovely and beautiful.

[farseer]

Wow, this is shocking

[Rus-Evo]

Just read that. Is kinda sad. Shame that my mind immediately suspects drugs.

[RaySinKa]

Not local to me but...

NZ policewoman allows naked cycling - with helmet

Two young men caught cycling with no clothes on have escaped charges of offensive behaviour, but received a warning to wear protective headgear.

Local policewoman Cathy Duder was unfazed when she came across the two nude men, both in their early 20s.

"They were more shocked than I was, trying to cover up their bits and pieces with their hands," she said.

The men were riding around the Coromandel seaside resort of Whangamata on the north-east coast of New Zealand.

When asked for an explanation, the pair replied that "they wanted to experience total freedom".

Strangely sober

"And I said to them 'the way you're heading, you're going to experience total confinement'," the officer said, laughing.

She said the men appeared decidedly sober.

"They didn't seem drunk at all. That's what worried me," she joked.

Ms Duder issued them with a stern warning for not wearing helmets and then sent them directly home.

She told the Associated Press news agency that she did not see them again during her shift, and it was not known if they donned helmets and resumed their ride.

Public nudity can attract a charge of offensive behaviour in New Zealand, but Ms Duder said she let the two men go free.

"It was dark and there was no-one else around. They were jovial young men who had not intended to cause offence," she said.

[MissFinn]

Russ was that you with your best mate?

[Rus-Evo]

Well I brought my bike an am spending the summer holidays in the Coromandel pennisular.....but no, that is not me.

[Mach]

Long line ups at USA border

[RaySinKa]

Long line ups at USA border

Are they checking in your underpants?

Ray

[RaySinKa]

Well it is a "Blue Moon" tonight (or not depending on your definition) and at 7.23am there will be a partial eclipse of the moon.

Hoping for a clear night.

Ray

[MissFinn]

Full moon on Saturday,
guess that eclipse is only showing in your side of the earth?
Would love to see it.

[RaySinKa]

Full moon on Saturday,
guess that eclipse is only showing in your side of the earth?
Would love to see it.

The eclipse was brilliant.

The clouds cleared at about 6pm, the moon rose and right on schedule the bottom, right hand corner of the moon went into shadow.

I had a Chinese friend round for dinner and she explained to me that Chinese Mythology stated that eclipses are caused by the Sky Dog biting out chunks of the Moon or Sun!

"...In another myth, the solar eclipse was caused by the dog of heaven biting off a piece of the sun. The referenced event is said to have occurred around 2,160BCE. There was a tradition in China to hit pots and pans during a solar eclipse to drive away the "dog"..."

We all sat on the sofa watching the unfolding event, fortunately she didn't feel the need to bang the pots and pans.

Ray

[Mach]

Long line ups at USA border

Are they checking in your underpants?

Ray

I don't mind that

Just don't them checking any body cavities

[Mach]

Long line ups at USA border

Are they checking in your underpants?

Ray

I don't mind that

Just don't want them checking any of my body cavities

[RaySinKa]

More Health and Safety madness in the UK!

Health and safety rules to guard pupils against dangers of singing and spicy food

Schools are being warned to follow new health and safety rules designed to protect pupils from musical instruments, singing with a dry mouth, spicy food, a helicopter landing in the playing field and other bizarre hazards.

The guidelines produced by councils highlight a whole range of unlikely threats to be guarded against.

Headteachers are told to carry out “risk assessments” for scenarios ranging from a pupil injuring himself with a musical instrument, to a helicopter landing on school grounds.

Policies are having to be drawn up to meet health and safety diktats which are unnecessary, state the obvious or relate to incidents that are never likely to happen, according to headteachers.

One council has produced more than 70 risk assessment forms for schools, one of which focuses on “voice care” for teachers. It lists “hazards” including “throat clearing, failing to lubricate the mouth, singing in too high or too deep a tone, using a forced whisper or talking too quickly”.

It even advises against “hot spicy foods, very hot drinks and breathing continually through the mouth”, which it says can “have an adverse effect on the voice”.

Another authority has a 35-page health and safety code for primary schools which points out that hemlock and deadly nightshade plants should not be grown by children.

Headteachers said last night that the health and safety culture had gone too far.

“Schools used to feel under pressure to have a policy for everything that moves, now they have to have a policy for everything that might move and even for things which don’t,” said Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers. “This guidance is produced by local authorities in the guise of being helpful but it is all about the transfer of responsibility.

“Schools do have to keep sites safe but this deluge of paperwork goes beyond that. It’s just too much information. These things need to be nailed down to sensible risk assessments. Time shouldn’t be wasted producing a policy on everything.”

Local authorities say the risk assessment guidance is sent to schools to in a bid to keep staff and pupils safe, as well as to protect officials from being sued if accidents occur.

The materials cover every aspect of school life, from what children eat to how long staff should spend on mobile phones.

Staffordshire County Council’s 70 risk assessments include “helicopter landing at school”, which identifies such hazards as excited pupils running to the aircraft and lack of air traffic control clearance. It says pupils may watch the landing from a classroom window - “provided the glazing is safe”.

A risk assessment on music lessons says that pupils must use a trolley to transport bigger instruments, and bans the use of drum sticks or percussion hammers without staff present for fear they might cause injury.

Guidance sent to primaries by Norfolk County Council lists the plants that children can grow and tells teachers not to allow the planting of “hemlock and deadly nightshade”.

Other common-sensical guidance includes a risk assessment produced by Herefordshire Council for school visits to parks, which instructs supervisors to “scan picnic area for potentially dangerous litter - eg used needles, dog excrement”.

Similarly, staff at schools in Northumberland with sand pits are told to undertake a “visual inspection” of the sand for any signs of “contamination”.

The Health and Safety Executive said generic risk assessment forms produced by councils reduced the administrative burden on head teachers but said some of the assessment, such as voice care, would not be expected under health and safety rules.

A spokesman said: “We want a sensible, proportionate approach. Some of these go above and beyond, such as the ones on voice care and mobile phone use.

“If you concentrate too much on trivia it can dilute the message about the serious issues. Health and safety paperwork can be thought of as a barrier to litigation but paper work doesn’t save lives, decisions save lives.”

Staffordshire County Council claimed it was simply adhering to health and safety legislation.

Ian Perry, the council’s deputy leader and cabinet member for children and young people, said: “Statutory requirements are formed by Government organisations such as the Health and Safety Executive and Ofsted, which will fail schools that do not have these requirements in place.

“We provide examples of assessments to lessen the amount of paperwork for schools. This includes some specialist risk assessments which we don’t expect every school to carry out.”

[lightmas]

Wow,all I can say really

[Rus-Evo]

Darn American legal issues will infect us all

Thats us in a few years.

[Mach]

Canada will play for a gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship after beating the Swiss 6-1 today in the Semi-finals. The gold medal game is this Tuesday

40 more days until the Olympics start

[Rus-Evo]

Earthrace the New Zealand boat built to beat the round the world powerboat record, but which was sent to help fight the whalers and the Antarctic Ocean has apparently just been rammed and sunk by the Japanese whalers security vessel. It is breaking news, but could be a diplomatic incident!!

[RaySinKa]

Earthrace the New Zealand boat built to beat the round the world powerboat record, but which was sent to help fight the whalers and the Antarctic Ocean has apparently just been rammed and sunk by the Japanese whalers security vessel. It is breaking news, but could be a diplomatic incident!!

That is sad, was there any loss of life?

The boat was in Cardiff last year, moored just across the way from my apartment.



Ray

[Rus-Evo]

No loss of life. The ship might be savable. There is now video of the incident, I cant tell who is actually in the wrong (both sides are full of the usual rhetoric).

Also its painted black now and looks stealthy.